Kat Gal WRITES: Chronic pain is something I’ve lived for years, chronic headaches, chronic hip pains and related chronic back pain, chronic neck aches and chronic muscle pain… not to mention the emotional pain that came with it. I’ve healed from my non-stop, 24/7 chronic headaches and running happily without chronic hip pains again. I […]
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Scientists researching the potential connections between deep, restorative sleep and the protein fragment beta-amyloid recently found that poor sleep not only hinders the brain’s ability to save new memories, but also creates a channel through which this Alzheimer’s-triggering protein is able to travel and attack long-term memory storage. “Over the past few years, the links
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Beyond pure research, body swap illusions might put us in someone else’s shoes to increase our empathy towards them. Or they might be a useful therapy. An interesting finding of the invisibility illusion study was that participants were less socially anxious standing in front of an audience when under the illusion. More broadly, however, the
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Why are some people sharp as a tack at 95 years old, while others begin struggling with mental clarity in their 50s? A lot of it has to do with genetics, but certain lifestyle factors also play an important role in how our brain ages. So while you can’t control your genes, you can take
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As M. Katherine Shear, MD, professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University School of Social Work, puts it: “Grief is not one thing. It is a shorthand word for a complex, time-varying experience that is unique for each person and each loss.” There is no timetable for the healing process. “In general, grief usually evolves
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The researchers found that when the participant’s brain activity revealed that they had retrieved a memory with “high fidelity,” their next response was likely to be the next item on the list — suggesting that they also recalled the detail around the object. But when they did not recall the item with high fidelity, the
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